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| Floyd
Semi Reunion |
Gigwise reports: A host of ageing rock legends
are set to take part in a gig in support of pro-hunt lobbying group The
Countryside Alliance.
Pink Floyd legends Roger Waters and Nick
Mason will be joined by Eric Clapton, Roger Daltrey and Roger Taylor for
the concert.
The event will take place on May 20 at
Highclere Rocks, Berkshire [see full story for more]-
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| OK
Go Arrest |
MTV reports: OK Go frontman Damian Kulash
was booked on resisting-arrest charges by police in Orlando, Florida, after
ignoring an officer's orders to head inside the local House of Blues where
the band was performing. Instead Kulash insisted on loitering outside with
several of the group's fans. [see full story for more]-
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| Band
Attacked |
SMN reports: The band Tub Ring was attacked
onstage at a recent show where they shared the stage with 5 hardcore/straight
edge bands (brilliant booking on that one.) siN's metal news has a statement
from Tub Ring here is a recap but see the full story for it all: - Tub
Ring plays last out of 6 bands. All are hardcore / straight edge. ..TR
plays song to song to song, non-stop. NOTHING was said to the audience
through the PA except right before TR starts playing... when jokingly TR
remarks "you are going to need to listen to Elton John for a week to get
all that hardcore out of your systems" � as TR plays, members of all the
opening hardcore bands gathering on both sides of the stage watching TR
play. FULL bottles of water begin to be thrown @ TR by these band members,
then... a metal lock box, then out of nowhere a HUGE barstool is hurled,
which hits TR's guitarist JEFF, breaking the headstock off of his guitar.
Another chair hits Rob in the head, and then smashes his keyboard up�.
Trevor is then HEADBUTTED by Wheeler (singer of "Black My Heart") leaving
both of them with bleeding cuts. Trevor now needs stitches on his face�.
Cops arrive & take pictures of the damage to Tub Ring's equipment and
of Trevor's injuries, and Wheeler singer of "Black My Heart" is arrested
and taken to jail.- Click
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| Rocky
Hall Inductions |
TMZ reports: Between an ugly feud among Blondie
members spilling over onstage and a rancorous letter from the absent Sex
Pistols, the latest Rock and Roll Hall of Fame class did not enter quietly
on Monday. The animosity even made Ozzy Osbourne, inducted with Black Sabbath,
seem sedate.
Infante, Harrison and Gary Valentine, another
former member left behind in a business dispute, were barely acknowledged
by former chums Deborah Harry, Chris Stein and Clem Burke as they received
their awards. Infante begged to perform with the band. "Debbie, are we
allowed?" he pleaded before Blondie performed their hits "Heart of Glass,"
"Rapture" and "Call Me."
"Can't you see my band is up there?" Harry
replied. The three rejected members walked offstage, but not before Infante
groaned into the microphone.[see full story for more]-
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| Radiohead
Struggling |
Gigwise reports: Thom Yorke has revealed that
he and the rest of Radiohead are struggling with the recording of their
new album.
"Today, myself, I was struggling, feels
like we've been trapped for a long time. In la la land. Very frustrating,
and under pressure now, it's so slow."
"Enough to drive anyone loopy. I'm supposed
to be positive. Smiling faces for the outside. Well I'm f***ing tearing
my hair out. Too much at once. Furiously writing, working out parts. Cracking
up."[see full story for more]- Click
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| Jack
White Feud Lawsuit |
Gigwise reports: Jack White is set to take
his petty argument with former Buff Medways member Billy Childish to whole
new level.
The pair have been having a very public
war of words after Childish dismissed The White Stripes music in a GQ interview.
Now White is bringing in the lawyers and
suing a London art gallery, where some of Childish's artwork has been exhibited,
who displayed a �tribute' poster to the spat.
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| Iced
Kotter |
Contact Music reports: Rapper-turned-actor
ICE CUBE has signed up to play the lead role in a feature film adaptation
of 1970s sitcom WELCOME BACK, KOTTER. The former NWA star, real name O'SHEA
JACKSON, will star as wise-cracking teacher GABE KOTTER, who returns to
his inner-city high school to teach a class of likeable tearaways. [in
related news the MPAA still try to blame the internet for causing people
to stay away from theatres. see full story for more]-
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| U2
Filthy Rich |
Contact Music reports: Irish rockers U2 have
beaten THE ROLLING STONES and THE EAGLES to top the 2005 rock rich list,
drawn up by Rolling Stone magazine. BONO and his bandmates made an estimated
$154.2 million (GBP90.7 million) from touring and album sales, becoming
the only act to break $100 (GBP58.8 million) on the Rock's Top Thirty Moneymakers
list. [see full story for more]- Click
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| The
Cars Return, Plot Tour with Blondie |
Press Release reports: Seventeen years after
the last tour by The Cars - one of the most successful and influential
bands of the late '70s/early '80s "New Wave" era - two of its seminal members
have customized a modern model that's ready to hit the road this spring
in the form of The New Cars. Joining The Cars' original guitarist Elliot
Easton and keyboardist Greg Hawkes for Road Rage Tour 2006 Presented by
VH1 Classic, will be an all-star group of rockers: vocalist/guitarist Todd
Rundgren, fellow Utopia bassist/vocalist Kasim Sulton and former Tubes
drummer Prairie Prince.
Newly inducted Rock Roll Hall of Famers,
Blondie will ride shotgun with The New Cars, performing classics from their
new Greatest Hits- Sound Vision album (Capitol/EMI) which includes the
new hit "Rapture Riders," a mash-up of Blondie's "Rapture" and The Doors'
"Riders on the Storm." The Los Angeles Times calls it "one of the best
mash-ups ever produced." Other classics on the new CD include "Heart of
Glass," "Call Me," "The Tide is High" and "Sunday Girl."[see full story
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| Anti-Flag
Leak |
Mammoth Press reports: Anti-Flag have posted
a full album stream of their upcoming full length, For Blood and Empire,
which is slated to hit stores on March 21st via RCA.[see full story for
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| Rare
KISS |
Blabbermouth reports: Newly discovered, unreleased
material from late Eric "The Fox" Carr, who was the drummer for KISS between
1980 and 1991, will be released by his family later this year. The songs
all are from the era 1984-1991. It's not known at this time whether the
family will release an EP or if they will just make the tracks available
for download through the official Eric Carr web site, www.ericcarr.com.
Most of these songs were performed by Carr, and some were co-written with
KISS bassist/vocalist Gene Simmons.[see full story for more]-
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| Duff
Takes High Road in GNR Battle |
Blabbermouth reports: VELVET REVOLVER bassist
Duff McKagan has responded to a press release issued last week by GUNS
N' ROSES frontman W. Axl Rose.
McKagan told Launch that he would rather
not get involved in the situation at all. "I think, you know, a lot of
it's really unfortunate, very difficult," he said in an interview conducted
last Friday (March 10). "I've always just wanted to make great music and
that's what I plan on doing. As far as a rebuttal to what he said, or what
Slash has said, I won't get involved in a war of words, you know. People
say all kinds of stuff and I'm not going to be one of them."[see full story
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| Alice
in Chains US |
Blabbermouth reports: [Alice in Chains] band
members told Launch that they will probably play a handful of U.S. club
dates in late May, followed by European festival appearances over the summer
and a full North American tour in the fall. Guest vocalists will most likely
be used throughout the entire schedule. [see full story for more]-
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| Nine
Inch Bauhaus |
Blabbermouth reports: NINE INCH NAILS will
be teaming up with U.K. gloom merchants BAUHAUS for their next tour, which
is scheduled to kick off on May 26 in George, Washington, according to
MTV.com. The first 14 dates of the tour will also feature TV ON THE RADIO.[see
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| Metallica
Rub it in |
Blabbermouth reports: Billboard.com is reporting
that METALLICA members were asked at the 21st annual Rock and Roll Hall
of Fame induction dinner (held Monday night at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
in New York) whom they'd like to induct METALLICA when the group is inducted
into the Rock Hall down the road. "[SABBATH drummer] Bill Ward said they
would play if we get inducted," guitarist James Hetfield said, before drummer
Lars Ulrich interjected, "Dave Mustaine," the MEGADETH frontman who was
famously booted from the pre-fame METALLICA in the early 1980s [But Lars
forgets that Dave probably wouldn't get caught dead at a "black tie" affair.
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| Great
White Fire Trial Set |
KNAC reports: A judge on Tuesday set a July
trial date for one of the two owners of a nightclub where 100 people died
in a 2003 fire.
The trial of Michael Derderian is scheduled
for July 31 in Kent County, where the nightclub was located, Superior Court
Judge Francis J. Darigan Jr. said. [see full story for more]-
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| My
Chemical Producer |
punkbands reports: On Monday, MCR's management
confirmed to MTV News that the band has begun work on a brand-new album
with producer Rob Cavallo, the man who has helmed each and every Green
Day album since their 1994 breakthrough, Dookie[see full story for more]-
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